WP Custom Fields Contest: Aaron Brazell, techie extraordinaire from Technosailor (also responsible for the technology strategy and implementations for b5media) is sponsoring a “Custom Fields” Contest for WordPress. Basically, it is a contest to show off the best use of Custom Fields implementation in a WordPress Blog. The results will be judged on visual aesthetics, code examples and SEO benefits derived from the custom use of Custom Fields in WordPress. He will be offering cash prizes totalling $200 and is looking for sponsors and other cash and prizes for the contest. The last date to enter the contest is February 28th. It looks like he has some stellar help in judging the contest and that should make his life (and the contest) a lot easier on turn around time. I remember how excited I was to find custom fields in the CVS when I was working on Pictorialis and used […]
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Alex King has updated Share This and WP-Grins. These are available on his WordPress Plugins page. Wikipedia-NoFollow will add a a rel=”nofollow” to all your outgoing links to Wikipedia. This is in retaliation to Wikipedia adding a rel=”nofollow” to outgoing links. WordPress 2.1 requires smiley codes to be followed by a whitespace character. Usmivki allows displaying smilies that are followed by non whitespace character. iMax Width sets a maximum image width so large inline images don’t mess up your wordpress theme. It also adds height and width tags to all posts so the page loads more smoothly. Simple Clan War permits you to add your clanwar results on your blog using a simple tag.
[Continue Reading...]DiggProof your WordPress A close look at optimizing and tweaking your MySql database for WordPress and other tips and plugins to make your WordPress blog faster than it already is. Even though WordPress is fast in its own right, this article is geared for high traffic blogs and especially those that run WordPress on smaller Virtual Private Servers. While we are on the subject of optimizations, the newly released WordPress 2.1 Ella has introduced many code and query optimizations that should make WordPress much faster than it already was. For example, one of the changes introduced to handle future posts gives the database the ability to cache more queries at the MySql level and should reduce load on the database server (however minuscule).
[Continue Reading...]Localhost Restricter allows you to test your website on your local server environment without worry that somebody is trying to access it from the outside. Windows Media Embedding Plugin allows you to embed WMV files in your blog posts.
[Continue Reading...]WP Extension: WP-Manage This extension (or hack) for WordPress allows for backup and upgrade of WordPress from inside its own interface. I am not sure why it was not integrated into the WordPress admin though it does honor the WordPress user profile. It uses special Zip and Mysql backup backup classes from inside PHP and does not require the use or permission of passthu(). As an FYI (since my backup plugin had the vulnerability), the backup files created are still world readable and though the filenames are random, there is an element of risk involved. The upgrade feature, albeit cool, might be a bit dangerous if not coupled with the backup.
[Continue Reading...]Private Notes plugin for WordPress provides registered users on a site with the ability to send messages to one another. Cloud-O-Google Queries is a filter to display keyword clouds based on search engine queries. WP Group Restriction is a WordPress plugin that enhances the current user role feature, by allowing administrators to manage access to content (i.e., pages). The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. Slickr Gallery is a bandwidth-friendly AJAX photo gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages. It is especially useful for people with many Flickr albums/photos. Slickr Gallery needs a Lightbox plugin to work properly. Google Sitemap Parser outputs all the links from your sitemap.xml that is generated by using the […]
[Continue Reading...]Landing Sites (de) is the german version of the plugin Thomas Silkjaer’ Landing sites. It shows related posts to a visitor from a particular search engine. Post Information aims to consolidate your post information into a collapsible panel (using script.aculo.us) that can save space on your page. Nice Dashes will replace double dashes (––) with the correct character code for an em-dash (-). It will also convert single dashes to a character code.
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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